True Pretences: Psychodynamic Work With the Lost, the Angry And the Depressed - Couverture souple

Biven, Barrie M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905237049 ISBN 13 : 9781905237043

Editeur : Matador, 2005

Synopsis

This book of essays reminds us of the great range of understanding that the insights of psychoanalysis make available to those prepared to work both within and outside its conventional boundaries.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barrie Biven is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist who trained in London under Anna Freud. He was born in Humberstone, Leicester and was educated at the Alderman Newton Boys' School and the University of Sussex. Dr Biven served in the Royal Marines Commando as an Instructor in the Cliff Assault Wing before directing an experimental project working with street corner juvenile delinquents in London. He founded and co-directed with Josephine Klein a project in Brighton aimed at researching and meeting the needs of itinerant adolescents. In 1977 he and his wife moved to America to join the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he was Associate Director of the Child Analytic Study Program alongside Dr Humberto Nagera. He has been a consultant to the Detroit Psychiatric Institute, to the University of Capetown / Red Cross Hospital, Child and Family Unit, and since 1978 to the Instituto de Salud Mental, Monterrey, Mexico, where he continues to supervise and teach the trainees in Child Psychotherapy. Domiciled in the UK, Dr Biven retains a private practice in psychotherapy with adults, and conducts evaluations of adolescents for the courts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Matador
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905237049
• ISBN 13: 9781905237043
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible